Remarkable food and regrettable movies

Aug 17, 2010 00:22

I just had two days in which I ate delicious food (yaaaay, Wellington On A Plate is on and I have some disposable income!), hung out with friends, and saw Scott Pilgrim, which rocked! And now I have a two-day backlog of the most negative-nelly parts of this meme. Ahh, such is life.

Day 13 - A guilty pleasure )

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cynicatlantis August 16 2010, 12:57:43 UTC
I'm right there with you on "Dragonheart" - I watched it a few years back when it was on TV one afternoon, and damned if the ending didn't make me all teary just like it did when I was 12. *sniffle*

It also gave us David Thewlis being exceptionally slimy and evil, if a wee bit hammy.

The CGI actually holds up surprisingly well - mostly because I think ILM really seemed to pick one thing (the dragon) to focus on, instead of spreading themselves thin trying to get as many effects in as possible. They got some stuff right back then that they seem to have forgotten about - simple things that made the dragon seem believable in the environment: having realistic shadows, showing long grass being crushed under the dragon's feet and being blown around by the wind from the its wings, and generally giving the creature a sense of weight and size (I'm so very tired of all these huge CGI creatures ignoring the rules of physics, and generally telling gravity that they're too good for the likes of it).

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20thcenturyvole August 17 2010, 14:27:42 UTC
Aw, David Thewlis. He seems so wee in this! It breaks my heart, especially since he's being all evil, because it's that type of movie.

(I'm so very tired of all these huge CGI creatures ignoring the rules of physics, and generally telling gravity that they're too good for the likes of it).

YEEESSS, that is so on the money! I hate CGI creatures that do not look like the world affects them, you know? No wind rippling fur or flattening skin, no solid objects impressing their flesh, no sense that they have real weight or heft - that they need to balance or avoid objects. I actually notice and get excited when I do see these things happen, because it seems so rare. It's like a curse of CGI creatures that their animators forget they're meant to be in a world, not merely superimposed on it.

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marrog August 16 2010, 13:17:43 UTC
Totally with you on both of these. I am going to go home and download Dragonheart tonight, no question.

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20thcenturyvole August 17 2010, 14:28:25 UTC
Hooray! I should find it at Civic the next time I'm there...

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aurora_84 August 16 2010, 17:41:52 UTC
Oh my God, I forgot that Draco died. :( :( :(

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20thcenturyvole August 17 2010, 14:30:44 UTC
I am sorry for bringing the sad back! Seriously, out of all the things I could say are bad about Dragonheart, that is still the thing that pisses me off most. I know it was for totally legit plot reasons that were there from the beginning, but NOOOOOOO, DRACO! D:

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